'Places' uses wrong path on Linux

[kbrandwijk]

I know Linux desktop support is still experimental, but I've been using it with great success for a while now. However, I ran into an issue that when selecting a background, or a file or picture to send in a conversation, when selecting a location from 'Places' (such as Pictures), the path shown is /root/Pictures, which is wrong. It should be /home/Pictures.
Using the same functionality from the browser works as intended.

[ConorIA]

How are you building / installing / running Wire? That looks like Linux Mint, am I correct?

My guess is that Wire is running as the root user (this is generally bad.) You can check by running ps aux | grep Wire on a terminal.

I don't think that this is anything set in the Wire app, for instance, when I open a photo, it automatically starts on the Nautilus Recents page. When I open a location in Places, it does indeed send me to MY user folder. Not root.

[kbrandwijk]

@ConorIA Very well noticed, I feel kinda stupid missing that. I restarted the app, and now it's fine. In short, the app behaves exactly as expected. Let's close this one quickly :-)

[lipis]

We won't tell anyone.. 😶